India, Aug. 5 -- A 40-year-old delivery agent of a quick-commerce platform was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Nelson Mandela Marg on Monday morning while he was on his way to work. The driver of the offending vehicle, a Tata Nexon EV, is currently absconding, police said.

Deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Amit Goel said that the deceased was identified as Rajkumar, a resident of Munirka. The accident took place around 6.30am, near a petrol pump on the road from Vasant Kunj to Vasant Vihar, said Goel. Police received a call about the accident and found an electric scooter bearing a temporary registration number in a damaged condition and a pool of blood beneath it, but no one at the scene.

The Nexon was also found abandoned ...